The Earth is protesting for the wrong that we are doing to her, because of the irresponsible use and abuse of the goods that God has placed on her. We have grown up thinking that we were her owners and dominators, authorised to loot her. The violence that exists in the human heart, wounded by sin, is also manifest in the symptoms of illness that we see in the Earth, the water, the air and in living things.
The earth is protesting? Irresponsible use?
Sounds like a very confused Pope to me, who appears to have a central planner mentality with no understanding of subjective value and the daily rankings that people must do every day in order to act--including the ranking of how to deal with the resources on this planet.
To attempt to force actions that are not in line with peaceful valuations are the true acts of domination and violence. The Pope is attempting to lead us to Hell and doesn't seem to realize it.
-RW
Wow....seems like he's worshipping Gaea more than God.
ReplyDeleteGranted, I'm not a Christian/Catholic, so I really have no authority...it's just an observation.
I wonder what he thinks of Genesis 1:26:
"Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
Sounds like "domination" to me, eh- oh well. Glad I'm not Catholic and have to try to fit my worldview into the Pope encyclical's, I'd probably go crazy.(ier)
I appreciate the clarification, counselor.
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This is also stunningly in opposition to Catholic catechism, which teaches that God(tm) placed humans on earth and gave them dominion over it all of its creatures.
ReplyDeleteMalachi Martin, please pick up the white phone.
Gentlemen, you all make very good points. However, if you are interested in what the Catholic Church is really about, forget about all this tripe. Look into monasteries like Clear Creek in Oklahoma or Norcia in Italy, where they still live the faith and, if I may say, they target an inner liberty that cannot be taken away by any government. There are also other places, of course, but what comes from Rome these days is just secular humanism with a veneer of emotional pietism.
ReplyDeleteThey say history does not repeat, but that it rhymes, and in this case there is a direct link to the time of Queen Elizabeth I of England. England in the Elizabethan Era was a massive police state which wanted utter, and complete control of every aspect of peoples lives. In 1572 Queen Elizabeth I signed the Vagabond Act which made it illegal to travel without permission when you were unemployed, and made it illegal to be without work for more than a day-or-two. Under the Vagabond Act the unemployed could be branded if they were unemployed for longer than a couple of days. When the Vagabond act was followed by the massive increase in "land enclosure", which through people off the land that had been in their families for a considerable amount of time, there was an extremely powerful synergy between the two acts. These two acts made a lot of people criminals in the eyes of the law, because they were now homeless, and could not look for work. This synergy fed the rise of the nascent Industrial Revolution at the peak of homelessness some 150 years later, and ended up creating massive squalor in the cities of Great Britain.
ReplyDeleteFast forward 443 years to today when the Bilderberg Group, and many others are trying to remove people from the land thru Agenda 21, and it's steroid enhanced little brother which is being unleashed on us at the present time. The vast majority of public announcements on Global Warming are made by prostitutes who are paid to spread fear among the public. Fear in the police state of modern America is just as powerful as it was in the Elizabethan Era. There is no doubt that the Agenda 21 hysteria is a replay of what happened so long ago, but this period of history has been utterly forgotten.